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In response to recent price reductions from Telus and Virgin Mobile, Rogers has launched a new $55 My10 "Competitive Response" plan. The $55 plan is not actually visible on the Rogers website, as the actual plan is the $60 Smartphone plan with a $5/month discount. Note that the $5 discount must be manually applied to...

Reports this morning point to some iPhone users experiencing problems with Daylight Saving Time. So far, the problems have been USA-based, where users report that the time is not changing properly. Daylight saving time hits tonight/tomorrow morning, which means we all lose an hour of sleep —unless you have a Verizon iPhone, in which case...

Root Cases are very innovative cases made of hard, dense, and smoothly polished wood. The cases are very elegant and if you're looking for a classy case with a wood-like feel, Root Cases could be for you. The cases provide easy access to the camera, dock connector, and headphone jack. The volume rocker and sleep/wake...

Do you have Canada's worst cellphone bill? We've seen users rack up $37,000 via data roaming and others get hit with similar bills of $18,000 and $6000. CBC Marketplace once again called on Canadians to share their cellphone bill horror stories, and they've finally published their segment. Three bills related to Virgin, Bell, and Rogers...

In response to Telus recently reducing their promotional Smartphone plan by $5/month to $55/month, Virgin Mobile has now done the same. Effective today, Virgin Mobile has reduced their $60 Smartphone plan to $55/month. For reference, the plan is detailed below: Minutes: 200 daytime Evenings/Weekends: Unlimited @ 6PM Data: 1GB Promotions: Unlimited Text/Picture/Video messages, Unlimited International...

With Apple's release of the iPad 2, some of the exploits used to create jailbreak tools for iOS have been patched. According to Canadian iPhone hacker iH8sn0w, the Limera1n exploit has been closed: Muscle Nerd from the iPhone Dev Team also confirmed the SHAtter exploit has been closed by Apple as well. SHAtter was an...

Today, Virgin Mobile announced massive price reductions for their International and US Data Roaming charges. If you are currently a Virgin Mobile customer, you should be thrilled with these price reductions. The US Data Roaming rate is being lowered from $51.20/MB to $10.24/MB. The International Data Roaming rate is being lowered from $51.20/MB to $25.60/MB....

This week, Rogers Wireless has reintroduced their famous $30 6GB data plan, but only for Business Corporate customers. In other words, your account must have a MSD company code on it and the account type must be "Business Corporate" to qualify. Details of Data Plans The data add-ons are standalone Non-poolable options Any data options...

In response to Bell and Telus, Rogers is now the next wireless carrier to extended their activation fee waiver promotion and are waiving the $35 activation fee that customers are usually charged when starting up a new account. Eligibility & Restrictions The offer is applicable to new 3-year term activations on the following rate plans:...

This week, in response to Bell, Telus has launched their no activation fee promotion and is waiving the $35 activation fee that customers are usually charged when starting up a new account. The company is also offering free 6PM early evenings. The promotions are effective March 10, 2011. Eligibility & Restrictions The offers are applicable...

In November 2010, Telus introduced “Flex Data” to its existing iPhone plans. Then Telus expanded the Flex Data to their, at the time, Student 55 iPhone plan. Eventually the student plan expired and Telus then reintroduced the plan but for $5.00 more at $60/month instead of $55. That $60 plan expired on March 1, 2011....

Yesterday we saw the video of an untethered iOS 4.3 jailbreak by German security expert, Stefan Esser (@i0n1c). The exploit he used is a "buffer overflow in the kernel heap" (someone translate this for me), and has not been discovered yet by Apple. @i0n1c Says an Early iOS 4.3 Jailbreak Release Will Burn Exploit With...